Microsoft reviews

You have to pay for food and snacks. Not a comfortable work environment, they discourage peaceful and collaborative working. They do not promote based on quality of work instead they promote based on popularity and their review system. Hard work is NEVER rewarded here, instead employees are promoted when they do less work and leave early. At Microsoft, if one person in management, regardless of their direct connection to you, doesn't like you, your next review will be damaged. I've received only one 0.5% raise in nearly 5 years of service. Microsoft has horrible retention of long term employees. Management is free to ridicule employees. They 'claim' raises and promotions can happen any time but I have never seen anyone recieve a promotion or raise outside of once a year.

Microsoft future is now driven by the new GE COO running a slash & burn, profits over people show. 30,000 employees RIFd over 2 years, Alumni on the street w little to no empathy on their departure. Those that remain … the amount of hurdles one must go through to secure customer facing resources is ludicrous. Pre COVID most teams could come together some manner or you could hunt down a resource. No longer. Bloated Unified is the only way to get a resource, if you’re lucky enough to have a CSAM find one. And fewer Technical Specialists to help in every Cloud (Azure, Security, M365, Dynamics). Account teams largely dispersed and cohesion is absent. Budget for travel essentially non existent. Your individual ability to grow is largely a contest of shouting the loudest anymore. Long gone are the days of simply delivering in role. Doing what’s right for a customer mentality.. no longer a principle unless a paid engagement is the result.